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I don't really see a reason why there'd be a large iceberg of Go developers in China. There's no reason why programmers in China would use Go in higher proporti
by dunpeal 8y ago
I don't really see a reason why there'd be a large iceberg of Go developers in China. There's no reason why programmers in China would use Go in higher proportion than elsewhere in the world.
- ghthor 8y agoThe first class unicode support is one of the reasons that is big in China.
- dunpeal 8y agoIt's a nice feature, but several other languages have that, including languages that directly compete with Go.
- weberc2 8y agoPerhaps those languages also enjoy wider adoption in China than elsewhere in the world? Similarly, the software engineering industry has certainly advanced more rapidly in China than elsewhere in the world (as an artifact of China's rapid economic development), so their language adoption is likely skewed toward more recent languages (like Go).
- dunpeal 8y agoThese are good points, but the bottom line is "we don't really know". So I'd caution against assuming the number is very high just because it fits our hopes.
- weberc2 8y agoI agree, but I don't think anyone is assuming or hoping in this thread. Just speculating, which is what you do when "we don't really know". :)
- genericone 8y agoYou might want to re-evaluate that line of thinking: Here's a post from 2014 that made it to HN http://herman.asia/why-is-go-popular-in-china http://herman.asia/why-is-go-popular-in-china https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8872400 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8872400